@#13 ... Tell me what else he could have been referencing. ...

So you now want me to substantiate what you have asserted? That seems odd.

I'd proffer that if you make a statement, that you should be the one who needs to substantiate that statement, that it is not the responsibility of the audience to substantiate it.

But that's just me. :)

@#2

Maybe not "everything" but some quite frightening things.

Helsinki, for starters.

You mean this stuff?

From the cited article...

... After the clock struck noon and Biden officially became president, some message boards turned increasingly vitriolic. "It's over and nothing makes sense . . . absolutely nothing," one user said. "He sold us out," another believer wrote. "It's revolution time." Some of the big-name QAnon influencers were unswayed, however. "We have just witness the biggest crime ever committed in the history of the United States all on live television," @MajorPatriot, a prominent QAnon influencer whom Trump retweeted multiple times before his account was suspended by Twitter, said on Gab, moments after Biden was sworn in. ...

"a prominent QAnon influencer" - good grief. A prominent QAnon influencer? (fwiw, the spell check here does not like "influencer," but that's a different thread...)

So we now have to follow, for our Government leadership, some random person who happens to have followers on Twitter.

OK, I am obviously missing something.

Can someone, anyone?, please educate me.

Mounds of gratitude.

@#10 .... That's clearly what he was referencing. ...

So you got nothing to substantiate your assertion of what you said his comment was.

It seems to becoming more and more apparent that one of fmr Pres Trump's goal was to weaken the United States on the world stage.

In my mind, the only question that remains is why would he do such a thing?

Why would a President of the United States seem to intentionally weaken the United States?

Why?

Where, exactly, were his loyalties?

(serious questions)

... "We All Got Played"; Qanon Implodes ...

well, yeah.

When you buy into a kool-aid vendor, what did you expect to happen.

Really, what did you expect?

What tangible results did you expect from the kool-aid you drank?

(I know this may seem trite, but really, ... serious question)

@#6 .. No he said "lies". ...

If you want to quote my comments, please endeavor to do so more correctly.

Yes, Pres Biden did say the word "lies."

But I noted that he had not ascribed "lies" specifically to "right wing media," as your comment so badly cherry-picks in its quote.

I was disagreeing that Pres Biden explicitly stated that "right wing media lies."

Do you have any citations to the contrary?

@#9 ... how come I knew last week that parler would find help from russia? ...

Maybe because Russia's preferred link into the GOP, a.k.a., the NRA, seems to be having some, umm, legal difficulties of late?

Jus' sayin'

@#3 ... right wing media lies to you. ...

While I do not necessarily disagree with your premise, that is not what Pres Biden said.

... With her inauguration, Vice President Kamala Harris has made history: She's the first woman -- and first Black and South Asian person -- to serve in the role, and now the highest-ranking woman in US government. ...

Agree with all of that.

But let us please just allow her to do the job of the Office she has now entered, without all the baggage of the identity politics being ascribed to her.

Let her be a Vice President.

In that light, how much worse could she be than fmr VP Pence?

I mean, really.

Speaking of the media... I note that the media is reporting...

The issue I have with "The Media" type of comments is the simple following question...

Who or what is meant by the appellation, "The Media"?

Really.

Fmr Pres Trump (OK, is feels so much better to type the "fmr" now...) has made "the media" a political hot potato, similar to his efforts to make wearing a mask politically incorrect.

... but at the media companies that have enabled Trump during his presidency. ...

Specifically, who are those "media companies"?

From the cited article...

...Tom Jones is Poynter's senior media writer. ...

What good is a "media writer" (a "senior" one, no less) if the "media" writer cannot provided the necessary deails to understand that of which he writes.

imo, I would have written the byline as...

Tom Jones is Poynter's page-hit whore of a headline writer.

And I'd have lowered my view of Poynter for enabling such a careless writer (as a "senior"!!).

@#19

Axios does a good job suming up what happened in that short article.

But this line stands out...

..."Jesus was dead for three days before he was resurrected. Never lose hope," read another on a separate forum for QAnon believers....

Woof.

People be crazy.

What I do not understand with this story is... why?

Why would a US Army soldier want to blow up a memorial for those who died due to foreign aggression on our own soil.

From the article...

... According to a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court, Bridges joined the U.S. Army in September 2019 and was assigned as a cavalry scout in Fort Stewart.

At some point, he began researching and consuming online propaganda promoting jihadists and their violent ideology, authorities said. ...

Why?

@#100 ... Hypothetically, things should get better now that orange traitor is out of the way and onwards and upwards with control of the House, Senate and POTUS. Please do not spend too much time(any) trying to appease the traitors in the GOP. ...

I disagree with that excerpt to some extent.

Yes, things will get better because there is no longer a person in the Oval Office who puts his own narcissism above the needs of the Country.

That aside...

The GOP really needs to up their game, significantly. We, the Country, need a solid two-party system. We need the discussion of differing ideas to move the Country forward.

What we, the Country, do not need is having one of the parties so susceptible to wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

We need to get past the point where we currently are, where slim majorities dictate.

We need to get to the place where vigorous debates come to the better conclusions.

The History channel had a series called, America's Book of Secrets. There was an awesome episode about the LIbrary of Congress, showing how the knowledge of the Country is treated.

@#90

@#2 ... I've "heard" this argument using the blind are in unacceptable danger at crosswalks being unable to hear the electric motor. ...

Blind, or not.

Deaf, or not.

If there is someone in the crosswalk, the driver stops the car before it reaches the crosswalk. Period. No further questions.

If you are inclined to say, "but... but", go back and read the preceding paragraph over and over until you understand its meaning.

That's the law here in Connecticut.

Back in a previous life, circa the late 70s, I was on business visiting the offices of a record company based in Los Angeles (I was designing equipment for them, but that's another comment). After the meetings, the "locals" took me out to dinner.

I discovered an interesting aspect of cars in Los Angeles.

At one point, a business acquaintances told me something that was quite funny. In my laughter, I accidentally stepped off the sidewalk and on to the street. One foot onto the street, within inches of the curb.

Traffic on the street stopped. A couple drivers got out of their cars and yelled at me.

A business acquaintance grabbed my elbow and pulled me back onto the sidewalk. He told me ~don't ever put a foot on the road unless you ntend to cross it, and only cross it at crosswalks, with the light.~

I left Los Angeles with a distinct impression that the good people (drivers) of Los Angeles take pedestrians very seriously.

After living in New Jersey for a few years (college), where you take your life into your hands when you walk across a parking lot in a shopping center, the Los Angeles approach, and the Connecticut approach were a welcome change.

But I digress.... ;)

@#5 ... I wonder if they were Chinese-made. ...

@#5 ... The Parler-using bootlicker crowd has demonstrated how stupid they are by filming their crimes while in the Capitol. ...

Speaking of which, remember the Capitol police officer who was being crushed in a doorway by one of the insurrectionists?

First off, Officer Hodges seems to be OK, the local news showed him talking about the incident on this evening's news, saying the insurrectionists took off his helmet, took his baton and started to hit him on the head with the baton.

But the reason it was on the local news was that the person allegedly doing the pushing on the door, crushing Officer Hodges, lives a town from here.

@#2 ... He's got no way out from under the SDNY investigation and likely charges for tax evasion/fraud. ...

Note the latter is not solely Federal.

Along those lines...

@#3

So succinct, yet so insightful and piercing to the core of the matter.

Newsy news is showing the two Georgia Senators being sworn in. So tomorrow the Senate will start off with its full compliment.

@#71 ... That NYT article in which Trump is reportedly denounced by The Proud Boys is worthy of it's own thread. Fascinati ...

Move it over if you want.

I'm out of posts for today. :(